This winter, when Marie Philip-Poulin teed up that rolling puck from Laura Fortino and scored the overtime winner in one of the most epic hockey games, period, let alone a women’s gold medal final between Canada and the United States, Sarah Davis sat motionless.

“Everyone has a special talent,” says 92-year-old Madeleine Cumming. “Your job is to help your children find out what theirs is and stay open minded to all the possibilities.” As she shares her parenting philosophy Tuesday afternoon, Cumming is sitting in a large hall at Foothills Hospital packed with a veritable who’s-who of the city’s wealthiest philanthropists — names such as Libin, McCaig, Hotchkiss and O’Brien, to mention just a few.

For those who grew up in Ontario, spending a weekend at “the cottage” is as Canadian an endeavour as pulling into Tim Hortons for a dutchie and double-double.But for those born and bred in Calgary, summer pilgrimages to the lake — and the near religious devotion with which they are undertaken — may seem a bit strange. The concept was certainly alien to Calgary-raised illustrator Jillian Tamaki, who needed to take a few fact-finding tours deep into Muskoka territory with her Ontario-born cousin, Mariko Tamaki, to prepare for their graphic novel, This One Summer.

The entitlement, merely perceived or authentic, is what really set Doug Gilmour’s teeth on edge. Maybe he only imagined it, to further feed his already insatiable competitive drive. Or maybe the Montreal Canadiens, cloaked as they were in history, did seem a big smug.

CALGARY - St. Albert has overtaken Calgary as the best place to live in Canada, according to a ranking by MoneySense magazine released Wednesday. St. Albert earned the top spot on the annual Best Places to Live in Canada, a ranking based on hard data such as employment, housing prices, crime, weather and household income.

Eby Heller and Jenna Jacobs walked hand-in-hand on the path beside their red chicken barn, Heller’s beach ball belly pushing tight against her winter coat as the couple grinned with anticipation of the upcoming birth of their first child. They walked hand-in-hand, too, just over a year earlier, Heller bent over in pain, Jacobs’ face twisted with dismay, as they exited a Montreal fertility clinic after another failed attempt to impregnate Heller with Jacobs’ sperm.

It was the golden age — and, for a select few, the platinum age — of alternative music in Canada. A time when, for example, a band that opened for flash-in-the-pan Vancouver rockers Rymes With Orange in front of a handful of people at a Montreal club in 1994 could find itself playing outdoors in front of an estimated 100,000 people in the same city just three years later. But not just any band. And certainly Moist was, and is, not just any band.

CALGARY — Calgary-based Good Earth Cafes Ltd., parent company of Good Earth Coffeehouse, announced Wednesday plans to expand its concept to Ontario. The coffeehouse chain is currently operating in Alberta, British Columbia, and Saskatchewan with 42 locations.

Ah, those lazy, hazy days of summer — and the widespread power failures that result with seemingly growing frequency each year. If Jeff Dionne has his way, they'll very soon be a thing of the past. His company, Smart Energy Instruments, produces sensors that make electricity grids smarter, more stable and more efficient.

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